HMS Deal Castle (1756)
HMS Deal Castle was a 20-gun Royal Navy ship built in 1756.
Service
Commissioned in 1754 she was built at Blackwall and fitted out in Deptford 1755/56 by Adam Hayes and launched on 20 January 1756.[1] Her first Captain was Edward Hughes. Fitting out was completed in March and she then plied the English Channel and North Sea.[2] Her first action was on 18 July 1760 when she captured the French privateer Le Faucon.[3]
In 1762, she escorted a convoy of troop carriers to
From 1766 to 1768, it was repaired and recommissioned at
On 17 April 1780, she took part in the
The ship was wrecked in the Great Hurricane of 1780 off the coast of Puerto Rico on 11 October 1780 (along with 12 other Royal Navy vessels) but only three of the 160 crew perished. Hawkins-Whitshed took over HMS Ceres. 22,000 persons were killed in the storm.[6]
References
- ^ a b "HMS Deal Castle (+1780)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
- ^ "Edward Hughes (1720-1794)". Threedecks.org.
- ^ a b "British Sixth Rate ship 'Deal Castle' (1756)". Threedecks.org.
- ^ "Sir Digby Dent". Morethannelson.com.
- ^ "Battle of Martinique, 17th April 1780". Threedecks.org.
- ^ "Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed (1762-1849)". Threedecks.org.
External links
- Media related to HMS Deal Castle (ship, 1756) at Wikimedia Commons